Dispelling nutrition myths, ranting, and occasionally, raving

Can you get your vegetables from chips?

Really? Could it be that easy? I wondered how they differed from the ubiquitous vegetable chips that are essentially the same as regular potato chips. A quick look at the nutrition facts panel and ingredients told me that they weren’t all that much different.

Sure, the Eat Your Vegetables chips have some carrot and sweet potato but judging by the ingredient lists, the traditional potato chips technically contain more vegetables as their number one ingredient is potatoes (and not overly processed dried potatoes at that). Score one for the traditional chips.

Clearly, nutritionally, the Eat Your Vegetables chips are a slightly better choice than the traditional potato chips. However, I think this comparison may be a little unfair. After all, Eat Your Vegetables are claiming to provide you with a full serving of vegetables. Perhaps I should be comparing them to actual vegetables. Since they have some carrot in them let’s see how they stack-up against a serving of raw carrots (one medium carrot = 61g):

Don’t be fooled into thinking that these Eat Your Vegetable chips are comparable to a serving of real vegetables. Sure, they’re a slightly better choice than regular potato chips but they don’t have anything on the real deal.